The crowd, steeped in the ancient mysticism of Bhutan, land of the flying tigress and the divine madman, might wonder if Norbu is the whirling reincarnation of a Buddhist saint. But the boy is ...

A bout 700 feet from Zambezi National Park and less than a 10-minute drive to Mosi-oa-Tunya, a.k.a. Victoria Falls, one of ...

Both of Dorji’s films share a reverence for Bhutan’s mountainous landscapes, and for the works of Dorjis’ mentor, the Bhutanese cinema pioneer Khyentse Norbu—a lama in Tibetan Buddhism ...

Norbu is not just a director but a Buddhist lama (spiritual ... ability to reveal cultural complexities through seemingly mundane interactions. Dorji uses Bhutan’s mock elections as a test to examine ...

Norbu--or to get fussy about it, Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche Chokyi Gyatso--was born to an aristocratic family in Bhutan, and at age seven he was declared the reincarnation of Jamyang ...

Sixteen-year-old Khenrab Norbu Tobgden, a Class XII Science student at Ugyen Academy in Punakha, will represent Bhutan at the Asian Youth International Model United Nations (AYIMUN), which will be ...

The group came from Bhutan, Nepal, Ladakh, Sikkim, Himachal, and other states. Norbu Tashi of the organizing committee said that special recitations of Tibetan Buddhist scriptures were done every ...

“We hope that the museum will be second to the Tiger’s Nest,” says Norbu Dema, Bhutan Foundation’s country director, referencing the country’s crown jewel, a cliff-hanging monastery in ...